laptop up & running!

Yay my darling laptop has returned to my loving embrace!

I'm not supposed to be up at this time, but I took a half-day today and slept the years of my life away.

Critical Theorist: You're being oppressed!

Poor sot: But I'm not.

CT: You only think you're not, but actually you feel oppressed and miserable.

PS: But I don't feel oppressed and miserable. I'm quite happy.

CT: You're so oppressed that you don't even know it!

This is why I love crit theorists, you just can't beat them. If you're a glass half empty kind of person, they'd probably tell you either: 1) the glass belongs to someone else anyway, you don't even have a glass, so why are you being so darn cheerful?, or 2) you're so oppressed that you're thinking about glasses when you should be thinking about subverting the hegemonic order.

This is one of my favourites from Mayday:

約翰藍儂
作詞：瑪莎/阿信　作曲：怪獸　編曲：五月天

那年冬天 子彈　它給了你自由
沒了　軀殼　就活在人們心中
看著　今天　你會笑還是會搖頭

整個世界　曾經　都跟著你作夢
如今和平　依然在歌曲裡頭
猜忌　戰火　還跟著我一起生活

能不能暫時把你的勇氣給我　在夢想快消失的時候
讓我的歌　用力的穿過天空　為我愛的人做一秒英雄

一顆紅豆　為何　想單挑這宇宙
都要　怪你　在我心中播了種
一把　吉他　就想對抗萬千炮火

玩著遊戲　出糗　喧鬧的攝影棚
怪獸　石頭　默默的吐在廁所
OK 再來　要世界為我們感動

能不能暫時把你的勇氣給我　在夢想快消失的時候
讓我的歌　用力的穿過天空　為我愛的人做一秒英雄

能不能暫時把你的夢想給我　在勇氣快消失的時候
總有一天　要人們叫我披頭　最後沒成功　也做過最美的夢

This song (especially this line: 一把　吉他　就想對抗萬千炮火) always reminds me of this iconic picture from late 1960s America with young protesters (students?) placing flowers in soldiers' gun barrels. Yeah, google it yourself if you're interested. I've learnt the hard, bitter way that no one ever follows my links or watches the videos I painstakingly put up. I'm a bitter, bitter person.

Hmmm I actually haven't listened to Mayday for a long time because I've been totally seduced and won over by Rachmaninoff's angsty brooding artist image. I was walking to work this morning when the sky grew ominously overcast and the wind whipped my now-rebonded (oh didn't I tell you?) hair around my face. And guess what? I was listening to Rachmaninoff and suddenly, the whole world made sense.